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a magazine article taking an insightful look at the underworld inhabited by street people
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Right around that time, the Venice Film Festival saw Mamoru Hosoda’s anime epic Scarlet, in which the Danish prince became an ass-kicking Danish princess consigned to a hellish and phantasmagoric underworld.
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
Set in an Aztec world, young Mexica warrior Xilactzin, accused of stealing sacred bones, crosses to the Mictlan underworld to retrieve them and battle the goddess of darkness, Itzpapalotl.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026
The groundbreaking series followed Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), two undercover cops navigating Miami’s drug- and violence-fueled underworld.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Based on the William Lashner novel, Kockroach is the story of a mysterious stranger who takes on New York’s criminal underworld, transforming himself into a larger-than-life crime boss in a city where power is everything.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2026
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Bilge Ebiri, Vulture, 14 Apr. 2026
Set in an Aztec world, young Mexica warrior Xilactzin, accused of stealing sacred bones, crosses to the Mictlan underworld to retrieve them and battle the goddess of darkness, Itzpapalotl.
—John Hopewell, Variety, 14 Apr. 2026
The groundbreaking series followed Sonny Crockett (Don Johnson) and Rico Tubbs (Philip Michael Thomas), two undercover cops navigating Miami’s drug- and violence-fueled underworld.
—Declan Gallagher, Entertainment Weekly, 13 Apr. 2026
Based on the William Lashner novel, Kockroach is the story of a mysterious stranger who takes on New York’s criminal underworld, transforming himself into a larger-than-life crime boss in a city where power is everything.
—Mike Fleming Jr, Deadline, 30 Mar. 2026
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“Underworld.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/underworld. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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underworld
noun
un·der·world
ˈən-dər-ˌwərld 
1
: the place of the souls of the dead
2
: the side of the earth opposite to one
3
: the world of organized crime
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